Moondog

Stap me! When you think you've heard it all, someone comes up with more earth shattering music, restoring your faith in humanity (well, almost). Back in the early 2000s, after locating those first Moondog 78s, and adding them to the mix at Honest Jons, assembling the compilation that became The Viking of Sixth Avenue, was a kind of musical cloud nine - a voyage of discovery, attempting to chart the worlds that Moondog had created. Now it's Spring again - as winter encroaches - and Mississippi expose us to some never before heard material. It's killer grade, recorded by yet another genius, Tony Schwartz, the pioneering Folkways field recordist, the first man to record Louis Hardin, aka Moondog, who in the 1950s also recorded a day in the life of a dog [canine variety] and a New York cab driver, among many others.

• 01 Why Spend The Dark Night With You
• 02 Nocturne Suite Part 1
• 03 Nocturne Suite Part 2
• 04 Nocturne Suite Part 3
• 05 Avenue Of The Americas (51st Street)
• 06 2 West 46th Street
• 07 Lullaby (2 West 46th Street)
• 08 Fog On The Hudson
• 09 Utsu
• 10 On And Off The Beat
• 11 Chant
• 12 From One To Nine
• 13 Untitled Chant 1
• 14 Untitled Chant 2
• 15 Untitled Chant 3
• 16 Untitled percussion solo 1
• 17 Untitled percussion solo 2
• 18 Untitled percussion solo 3
• 19 Untitled Chant 4
• 20 Untitled percussion solo in traffic 1
• 21 Untitled percussion solo in traffic 2